Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Fluid Mechanics is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of bandwidth on the energetics of intermediate to deep water laboratory breaking waves149
The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions on the distribution of microswimmers in channel flow111
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr–Sommerfeld stability analysis93
Attachment-line, cross-flow and Tollmien–Schlichting instabilities on swept ONERA-D and Joukowski airfoils90
Transient deformation of a viscoelastic capsule in a cross-slot microchannel: effects of inertia and membrane viscosity85
Experimental investigations of linear and nonlinear periodic travelling waves in a viscous fluid conduit85
Asymptotic predictions on the velocity gradient statistics in low-Reynolds-number random flows: onset of skewness, intermittency and alignments83
Scale-by-scale non-equilibrium with Kolmogorov-like scalings in non-homogeneous stationary turbulence82
Hydrodynamic coupling of a cilia–mucus system in Herschel–Bulkley flows82
Two-dimensional stability analysis of finite-amplitude interfacial gravity waves in a two-layer fluid79
Electrophoretic trajectories of non-uniformly charged particles in viscoelastic fluids: the weak surface charge limit79
Vortex line entanglement in active Beltrami flows72
Scaling and mechanism of the propagation speed of the upstream turbulent front in pipe flow71
Effects of the secondary baroclinic vorticity on the energy cascade in the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability68
Numerical study on topological change of viscous fingering induced by a phase separation with Korteweg force66
Averaging theory for heat transfer in circular hydraulic jumps with a separation bubble65
Drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulence by synthetic jet sheets63
FLM volume 954 Cover and Front matter59
FLM volume 944 Cover and Front matter56
FLM volume 990 Cover and Front matter55
Role of particle-laden interfaces in shear-induced deformation of colloidal droplets54
Large-eddy simulations of conical hypersonic turbulent boundary layers over cooled walls via volumetric rescaling method53
Fingering instability of self-similar radial flow of miscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell52
Discontinuous transitions towards vortex condensates in buoyancy-driven rotating turbulence51
Upscale transfer of waves in one-dimensional rotating shallow water50
Stabilising nonlinear travelling waves in pipe flow using time-delayed feedback49
Reduced representations of Rayleigh–Bénard flows via autoencoders49
Laminar flow over I-shaped dual-step cylinders48
Poiseuille flow of a concentrated suspension of squirmers48
Elasto-inertial rectification of oscillatory flow in an elastic tube47
Electromagnetic field effect on a conducting liquid film flowing down an inclined or vertical plane47
Breakage dynamics and scaling of wet aggregates of rigid particles46
Prediction of energy harvesting efficiency through a wake–foil interaction model for oscillating foil arrays45
Effects of dilatation and turbulence on tangential strain rates in premixed hydrogen and iso-octane flames43
Dynamics of rotating helices in a viscous fluid43
FLM volume 1007 Cover and Front matter42
Global drag reduction and local flow statistics in Taylor–Couette turbulence with dilute polymer additives42
Reaction induced interfacial instability of miscible fluids in a channel42
Bio-inspired variable-stiffness flaps for hybrid flow control, tuned via reinforcement learning42
Transition to chaos in a reduced-order model of a shear layer41
A linear-elastic–nonlinear-swelling theory for hydrogels. Part 2. Displacement formulation40
Wing sweep effects on laminar separated flows40
Linear dynamics of over-expanded annular supersonic jets40
Global modes of viscous heated jets with real gas effects40
Prediction of flow and polymeric stresses in a viscoelastic turbulent channel flow using convolutional neural networks40
Linear stability of monopolar vortices over isolated topography40
Evaporation of non-circular droplets39
Thermals from finite sources in stable and unstable environments39
Towards a finite-time singularity of the Navier–Stokes equations. Part 3. Maximal vorticity amplification39
Oscillatory flow around a vertical circular cylinder placed in an open channel: coherent structures, sediment entrainment potential and drag forces39
Continuum dynamics of suspensions at low Reynolds number39
On–off pumping for drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow38
Predicting convection configurations in coupled fluid–porous systems38
Steady periodic waves over a planar seabed: a global characterization38
Gas-sheared falling liquid films beyond the absolute instability limit37
Edge-driven collapse of fluid holes37
Mean resolvent operator of a statistically steady flow37
Scale-similar structures of homogeneous isotropic non-mirror-symmetric turbulence based on the Lagrangian closure theory37
These things take time: the first 1000 volumes of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics36
Fracture patterns in viscoplastic gravity currents36
Immiscible capillary flows in non-uniform channels36
JFM in the electronic age35
Investigations on the turbulentnon-turbulent interface in supersonic compressible plate turbulent boundary layer35
Asymptotic theory of a flapping wing of a circular cross-section35
Double-diffusive convection with gravitationally unstable temperature and concentration gradients in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media35
Turbulent drag reduction with streamwise-travelling waves in the compressible regime35
Turbulence kinetic energy transfers in direct numerical simulation of shock-wave–turbulence interaction in a compression/expansion ramp34
Wave turbulence in a rotating channel: numerical implementation and results34
Hanging droplets from liquid interfaces34
Decay rate of homogeneous isotropic turbulence laden with finite-size particles34
Nucleation effects on cavitation about a sphere34
The impact of source fluctuations in a filling box with interior diffusive mixing34
Aerodynamics and fluid–structure interaction of an airfoil with actively controlled flexible leeward surface33
Numerical study on the interaction between a shock wave and porous foam and the mitigation mechanism of porous foam filling a straight tube on a blast wave33
The role of Lagrangian drift in the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of surface waves33
Dynamics of a self-propelled compound droplet33
Reflectionless wave propagation on shallow water with variable bathymetry and current. Part 233
Mechanisms and models of particle drag enhancements in turbulent environments33
Hydrodynamic performance and scaling laws for a modelled wave-induced flapping-foil propulsor33
Compressibility effects on statistics and coherent structures of compressible turbulent mixing layers33
The influence of the shock-to-reshock time on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in reshock32
Order–disorder transitions within deformable particle suspensions in planar Poiseuille flow32
Feigenbaum universality in subcritical Taylor–Couette flow32
Vortex ring connection to a free surface32
A thin-plate approximation for ocean wave interactions with an ice shelf32
Shape of sessile drops at small contact angles32
Transient and steady convection in two dimensions32
The interaction of multiple bubbles in a Hele-Shaw channel32
Principle of fundamental resonance in hypersonic boundary layers: an asymptotic viewpoint32
Hydroacoustic analysis of a marine propeller using large-eddy simulation and acoustic analogy32
Compressibility effects on the secondary instabilities of the circular cylinder wake32
Adjoint-based linear sensitivity of a supersonic boundary layer to steady wall blowing–suction/heating–cooling32
Liquid states in horizontal plate-inserted slits32
On the analytic explanation of experiments where turbulence vanishes in pipe flow31
Conditional analysis on extreme wall shear stress and heat flux events in compressible turbulent boundary layers31
A freely suspended robotic swimmer propelled by viscoelastic normal stresses31
Dynamics-preserving compression for modal flow analysis31
Energetics and mixing of thermally driven flows in Hele-Shaw cells31
Searching for the log law in open channel flow30
Role of volatility and thermal properties in droplet spreading: a generalisation to Tanner's law30
Reduction of noise in cold and hot supersonic jets using active flow control guided by a genetic algorithm30
Paradoxical predictions of swirling jets30
Boundary-layer approach to the linear karren instability30
A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex30
Instability of a weakly viscoelastic film flow on an oscillating inclined plane30
Inundation, runup and flow velocity of wavemaker generated bores on a planar beach29
Consistent lattice Boltzmann model for reactive mixtures29
Bubble nucleation and jetting inside a millimetric droplet29
Shock induced aerobreakup of a droplet29
Flow past two rotationally oscillating cylinders29
Turbulence ingestion noise generation in rotating blades29
The dynamics of impinging plumes from a moving source29
Separation length scaling for dual-incident shock wave–turbulent boundary layer interactions with different shock wave distances29
Turbulent separations beneath semi-submerged bluff bodies with smooth and rough undersurfaces29
Effect of fluid inertial torque on the rotational and orientational dynamics of tiny spheroidal particles in turbulent channel flow29
The Rayleigh prolongation factor at small bubble to wall stand-off distances29
A thermomechanical model for frost heave and subglacial frozen fringe29
Water entry of an elastic conical shell29
Direct numerical simulation of supersonic and hypersonic turbulent boundary layers at moderate-high Reynolds numbers and isothermal wall condition29
Evolution of convection in a layered porous medium28
Motion of bulk nanobubbles driven by thermal Marangoni flow28
FLM volume 963 Cover and Front matter28
Transition of solitary waves and undular bore from basin to channel with opposing current28
Log at first sight28
A unified theoretical model for spatiotemporal development of Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov fingers28
Effects of settling on inertial particle slip velocity statistics in wall-bounded flows28
Aerodynamic deformation and breakup of wall-attached droplets in axisymmetric stagnation airflow28
Dynamics of elongated bubbles in slightly inclined pipes with viscous fluids28
Atomisation of an acoustically levitated droplet: experimental observations of myriad complex phenomena28
A shear and elongational decomposition approach of the rate-of-deformation tensor for non-Newtonian flows with mixed kinematics28
The onset of filamentation on vorticity interfaces in two-dimensional Euler flows28
Droplet jumping by modulated electrowetting27
Optimal growth in hypersonic flows over an inclined cone27
Analysis and modelling of non-local eddy diffusivity for turbulent scalar flux27
The effects of surfactants on plunging breakers27
Spreading of a viscous drop after impact onto a spherical target27
Shock attenuation of dense granular media27
Opposing-buoyancy mixed convection through and around arrays of heated cylinders27
Cylinder flow and noise control by active base blowing27
Statistical properties of pressure-Hessian tensor in a turbulent channel flow27
Turbulence and heat transfer on a rotating, heated half soap bubble27
Breaking bubbles across multiple time scales in turbulence27
Three-dimensional dynamics of a pair of deformable bubbles rising initially in line. Part 2. Highly inertial regimes27
The stability of stratified horizontal flows of carbon dioxide at supercritical pressures27
Self-similar fault slip in response to fluid injection27
Non-locality of mean scalar transport in two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor instability using the macroscopic forcing method27
Leading-edge vortex dynamics on plunging airfoils and wings26
Designing vortices in pipe flow with topography-driven Langmuir circulation26
Stability and bifurcation of dynamic contact lines in two dimensions26
Floating active carpets drive transport and aggregation in aquatic ecosystems26
Fake turbulence26
FLM volume 999 Cover and Front matter26
Learning fluid physics from highly turbulent data using sparse physics-informed discovery of empirical relations (SPIDER)26
The skating of drops impacting over gas or vapour layers26
Measurement and analysis of sub-convective wall pressure fluctuations in turbulent boundary layer flows26
Scaling analysis for the frequency of Ostwaldian and Newtonian bead-on-fibre flows26
Understanding the effect of Prandtl number on momentum and scalar mixing rates in neutral and stably stratified flows using gradient field dynamics26
How does turbulence mix a stratified fluid?26
Emergent rheotaxis of shape-changing swimmers in Poiseuille flow26
The role of double‐layer vortex rings with the local swirl in the rapid transition to turbulent flows in Richtmyer–Meshkov instability with reshock26
Generation and characterization of fully developed state in open channel flow26
Evidence that uniform momentum zones originate from roughness sublayer structure interactions in fully rough channel turbulence26
Experimental study of bubble competition and spike competition in Richtmyer–Meshkov flows26
Mixing enhancement of a compressible jet over a convex wall26
Robust relation of streamwise velocity autocorrelation in atmospheric surface layers based on an autoregressive moving average model26
Multipolar spherical and cylindrical vortices26
FLM volume 1001 Cover and Front matter26
Emergence of lobed wakes during the sedimentation of spheres in viscoelastic fluids26
Turbulent energy transfers in physical and scale spaces at dissipative length scales25
Pair statistics of oblate spheroids settling in a turbulent flow25
A coherent composite approach for the continuous circular hydraulic jump and vortex structure25
Role of streak secondary instabilities on free-stream turbulence-induced transition25
Regime transitions in stratified shear flows: the link between horizontal and inclined ducts25
A model for the dissipation rate in linear unsteady flow through porous media25
Attracting dynamical modes of highly elastic fibres settling under gravity in a viscous fluid25
Hydrodynamic response of an annular swirling liquid sheet surrounding a forced gas jet25
Complex-network analysis of high-frequency combustion instability in a model single-element rocket engine combustor25
Flow topology in the gap and wake of convex curved tandem cylinders25
Nested travelling wave structures in elastoinertial turbulence25
Generalized Lagrangian heterogeneous multiscale modelling of complex fluids25
Near-wake dynamics of a vertical-axis turbine25
An almost subharmonic instability in the flow past rectangular cylinders25
Analysis of the choking condition of one-dimensional diabatic flows with wall friction25
Elastohydrodynamic interactions in soft hydraulic knots25
Slow-growth approximation for near-wall patch representation of wall-bounded turbulence25
Curved detonation equations with analysis and its applications24
Optimising subgrid-scale closures for spectral energy transfer in turbulent flows24
Two-interface and thin-filament approximation in Hele-Shaw channel flow24
Second-order analysis of hypersonic boundary-layer stability24
Influence of the gas-phase Lewis number and thermocapillary stress on motion of a slowly evaporating droplet in Stokes flow24
Tripping effects on model-scale studies of flow over the DARPA SUBOFF24
Mechanisms of wake asymmetry and secondary structures behind low aspect-ratio wall-mounted prisms24
Generalized Reynolds equation for microscale lubrication between eccentric circular cylinders based on kinetic theory24
Droplet evaporation in inert gases24
Weakly nonlinear behaviour of transonic buffet on airfoils24
The limits of β-plane turbulence24
The energy cascade as the origin of intense events in small-scale turbulence24
Manipulation of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a heavy–light interface via successive shocks24
New formulations for the mean wall-normal velocity and Reynolds shear stress in a turbulent boundary layer under zero pressure gradient24
Converging material with two bulges24
Influence of immersed particles on the stability of the liquid–liquid interface in a two-layer channel flow24
Emergence of long-range correlations and thermal spectra in forced turbulence24
Effect of inhaled air temperature on mucus dynamics in the proximal airways24
Shear flow over a surface containing a groove covered by an incompressible surfactant phase24
Direct numerical simulation of 45° oblique flow past surface-mounted square cylinder24
Cavitation bubble dynamics inside a droplet suspended in a different host fluid23
Asymmetry of motion: vortex rings crossing a density gradient23
On the clustering of low-aspect-ratio oblate spheroids settling in ambient fluid23
The transient spread of a circular liquid jet and hydraulic jump formation23
Anchoring and migration of balloon in REBOA23
Characteristic scales during the onset of radiatively driven convection: linear analysis and simulations23
Particle segregation within bidisperse turbidity current evolution23
Thermal convection in the internally heated sphere23
Pressure-driven flow through superhydrophobic pipes with general patterns of longitudinal no-shear stripes23
Drag reduction utilizing a wall-attached ferrofluid film in turbulent channel flow23
Linear stability theory and molecular simulations of nanofilm dewetting with disjoining pressure, strong liquid–solid slip and thermal fluctuations23
Unsteady convective–diffusive transport in semicircular microchannels with irreversible wall reaction23
Capillary lubrication of a spherical particle near a fluid interface23
Leakage dynamics of fault zones: experimental and analytical study with application to CO2 storage23
On the turbulence modelling of waves breaking on a vertical pile23
Gravity currents from moving sources23
Bubble racing in a Hele-Shaw cell23
Convective mesoscale turbulence at very low Prandtl numbers23
Water entry of cups and disks23
Macroscopic model for generalised Newtonian inertial two-phase flow in porous media23
Viscoelastic fluid flow in a slowly varying planar contraction: the role of finite extensibility on the pressure drop23
Stratified horizontal convection23
A decoupled mechanism of interface growth in single-mode hydrodynamic instabilities23
FLM volume 925 Cover and Front matter23
The dispersive potential-vorticity dynamics of coastal outflows22
Investigation of species-mass diffusion in binary-species boundary layers at high pressure using direct numerical simulations22
Universal scaling of mean skin friction in turbulent boundary layers and fully developed pipe and channel flows22
Experimental investigation of the structure of plane turbulent wall jets. Part 1. Spectral analysis22
Invariants of the velocity gradient tensor in a spatially developing compressible round jet22
Direct numerical simulation of interaction between a stationary crossflow instability and forward-facing steps22
Onset of spontaneous beating and whirling in the follower force model of an active filament – ERRATUM22
On the relationship between manipulated inter-scale phase and energy-efficient turbulent drag reduction22
Stokesian motion of a spherical particle near a right corner made by tangentially moving walls22
The reflection of a planar impulsive shock wave at a liquid–gas interface22
The nascent coffee ring with arbitrary droplet contact set: an asymptotic analysis22
Flows with free boundaries and hydrodynamic singularities22
Transient dispersion process of active particles22
Reflection of a rightward-moving shock wave over a steady oblique shock with post-formed expansion wave22
Mechanical power from thermocapillarity on superhydrophobic surfaces22
Quasi-steady shock refraction phenomenon at a diffusive fast–slow interface22
Short-wavelength instabilities in a finite-amplitude plane inertial wave22
Analytical bounds on the heat transport in internally heated convection22
Buoyancy effects on film boiling heat transfer from a sphere at low velocities22
Gravity current energetics and particle suspension22
Resolvent-based tools for optimal estimation and control via the Wiener–Hopf formalism22
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